They're counting on you to die by a certain age. Without getting into politics, financial predictions, and insurance policies, the numbers are against you living WELL after a certain age. In fact, as I've heard at least one financial expert say, "You hope you don't run out of money before you run out of life."
Life expectancy is around 76 years in the U.S. But the maximum life span, if one exists, is much harder to estimate. While some researchers contend that a natural limit sits around 120, 140, or 150 years, others speculate that a limit doesn’t exist—and that aging doesn’t necessarily lead to death.
“Evolutionary biology provides little support for the idea that there are ‘aging genes’ that simply cause their carrier to grow old and die,” wrote Richard Fargher, a professor of biogerontology at the University of Brighton in the U.K., in a 2016 piece in The Conversation. (1)
